My bro has moved-house 46 times in his life(10 before college). 5 countries, at least, each with their own language and pitfalls. I think even he approaches it with a little less nonchalance than you - and us an army family who runs it all like a move mission!
What I can’t replace is my wrecked spine. So we hire the gorillas and the truck.
Even for this last move, which was 2 doors and 80m down the road, they packed, drove for 4 seconds and unpacked, and I wasn’t broken more after than before. Woo!
Yeah, I say that’s a value judgement every time. If you can brutally trim down to crucial stuff and rent (yes rent) space from a buddy, I think that’s the best.
In our case we never expected to move back near our original location, and thus left nothing behind. But my mom is paying $400/mo for a 12x10 locker for all her worldly possessions when we moved her into care. It’s a pricy way to hoard stuff while she’s transitioning down that slope.
All my moves had someone on the ground either before, after, or both. It’s invaluable. Growing up bouncing around as a kid, my family can do a long-distance relo like it’s an army mission – checklists and fallback plans.
Glad you had a plan b – I overnighted in a chilly ottawa basement of some ghetto airBnB when my housing glitched on arrival with cross-country move #3 ( fucking realtor landlords ), but that was remedied before the main group closed the housing at origin and arrived to prep for the indolent movers’ arrival (ultimately out of the blue after being in the wind for 8 weeks with everything we owned).
I was glad we’d almost planned enough, and I could focus on the employment and keep that going.
Cross-country move #2 used NJ movers and they extorted us$10k extra to release our stuff, so one chilly overnight was ultimately survivable in comparison.
The link between fossil fuels and AI is contrived. The link between meat consumption and AI is hallucinatory.
If there’s a breach you hit the fire alarm, the alarm that causes the entire building to catch on fire and contain the spider menace?
everytime
Not a word yet. It may never be a word.
That’s when you hold the phone to your face - like a phone - so you can talk at a normal volume and hear people really well.
phones were designed to be used, well, like phones. People holding them like a slice of pizza and shouting into them like some narcissist ‘reality’ TV contestant are carefully defeating all the optimisation and annoying everyone on the same city block as them.
We were at a restaurant just tonight next to a table where a man had a FaceTime on speakerphone for like a half-hour.
Remember when that was impolite?
The lack of economic mobility in America makes that accident of one’s birth either very lucky or very UN-lucky, because you can’t really change your stars anymore.
I’m glad if you can be happy for him, still, and not feel resentment for his amazing luck. That’s not a win that puts food I table but it’s a win.
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My biggest fear is that people are forgetting how to write actual words.
Ohhh, they’ll ditch the seniors too.
I’m in a union. We’re at the “we don’t know what to use it for but use it all the time but not that much but lots” phase.
It’s neat to condemn people as criminals on a simple timely accusation.
Yes but the standards are listed somewhere, so, uh, that’s job-done, right?
Bah. I’m in IT; and one can tell that from my comment history. Run even a dumb LLM over my comment history and you’ll probably have me identified +/- 1 person – job history, location history, current employer. I think there’s more in my comments than even in the lengthy form I had for my last background check.
But if get it if you’ve been careful, and that’s completely your choice.
I did IT support for a non-profit too. I felt they tend to glom onto the clue until you’re used up and then move onto the next savior. Needless to say, I haven’t done charity work in a number of years.
I remember there was a time when Romany were hated and people thought they would settle randomly in the middle of the night on land owned by someone else, which they would then defend as their exclusive property.
To me, this would describe a group making that stereotype a reality.
Are we misunderstanding how the Canaanites were kicked out of Egypt and how they ended up in Palestine originally?
“accounts payable clerk”
My wife started at a company as relief receptionist. They realized she was a smarty-pants and put her in as Accounts Receivable Clerk as soon as one opened. Now she’s managing the A-R team of 8, makes decent bank and they pay a great bonus and fund training every year – e.g her two-year designation recently. Her boss is a nepo hire with actual talent, so it’s glass ceiling, and she’s okay with that.
People who are driven enough to self-employ will often thrive in a good spot where the barrier can appear low but excellence stands out. I think A-P and A-R clerks are examples of this.
Additionally, working for The Man means you don’t have to find the work, get the insurance, do the complex taxes and worry about the market as much. Also she gets a fantastic yearly bonus.
She makes more than my day job, if we remember it’s unionized and we remove standby and call-outs. It’s not yacht money, but we’re okay.
made do?